Category: Internet

WhatsApp has gone down on New Year’s Eve, with users across the world reporting connection problems. Their Whatsapp Status account has not posted anything as of yet, however. Users around the world texting each other final messages for 2017 might have caused the outage. Some people are managing to send messages once in a while. This

Twitter has doubled the character limit per tweet. They changed the maximum number of characters from 140 to 280, to solve ‘issues with cramming’. The company started testing the feature in back in September. Apparently, the results have been pleasing since they are now pushing it in most languages. The company claims the testing group got

WhatsApp now lets you delete sent messages from the recipient’s phones, albeit within a short space of time. This was a long-awaited feature that everyone hoped would come. Currently, when you delete a message it only disappears from your phone. This means the recipient can still view the erratic message ;-). With the new feature,

European Union antitrust regulators have slapped Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a 2.42-billion-euro ($2.7 billion) fine for favouring its own shopping service. The action concludes a 7-year investigation into the company. The EU Commission concluded Google systematically gave prominent placement its own comparison shopping service and demoted those of rivals in search results. In a statement, European Competition

Mozilla has published Firefox 54, enabling multi process for all. Unlike Chrome, Firefox maintains a lower memory usage among the top browsers. Multi-Process splits tab process into multiple process. Chrome has used multi-process since 2008, and you can see the benefits in speed. For Firefox, the e10s project has been in development for a while

As part of the celebrations for it’s tenth anniversary, reCAPTCHA has announced an API for Android. reCAPTCHA has gone through a lot of changes. When it was introduced, the service used blurred image recognition to tell apart robots and humans. Over time robots evolved, and the found it easier to read the text than humans.

Elon Musk and his SpaceX wants to deliver 4,425 satellites to space, forming a mesh capable of providing gigabit internet to every part of the world. These satellites will operate between 1,110 kilometres to 1,325 kilometres altitude. This helps the satellites achieve the record low latency of 25ms. Current generations of satellites have a latency of

Google Chrome’s next update will move qualifying users to the 64-bit version automatically in the next update, 59. This applies to users who did not turn off auto updates. Machines that have more than 4 GB RAM and are running 64-bit versions of windows are the ones affected. Since no one really turns off the

YouTube is currently working on an update to change the look of its website to Material Design like many of Google’s services. The new design also features a dark mode. Google introduced Material Design back in 2014. It is the desing pattern for Android since lollipop. The primary source of inspiration for the language is